I've been doing some changes to how the WordPress newsletter gets sent out recently, and one of those changes was because I have switched to using MailChimp. I was getting sick of Aweber after some issues, and when the folks from MailChimp decided to advertise on my blog I contacted them.
So now, MailChimp is the [...]

I've been working on one of the largest WordPress MU projects we've taken on so far the last couple of days. We've been migrating the blogo.nl blogs (a Dutch blog network started in 2005) over to WordPress MU. There were several things in this project that were nice to figure out, I'll go over two [...]

This is so humbling... I just logged in to my Mint installation, to see that the combined total downloads for my plugins on WordPress.org have crossed 1 million... Check the screenshot:

There are plugins for WordPress that are just too good to be true sometimes. One of my all time favourite coders, Alex Dunae, has written a plugin called WP Smush.it. I was pointed at this plugin by my WestHost buddy, Nick Nelson, who found it while working on optimizing a site on Tehran News.
The [...]

This weekend I've begun testing the use of a CDN for yoast.com. The CDN I'm using is a product that will be available through VPS.net soon, but isn't just yet. So far, the speed improvement has been mind boggling. Just a few weeks ago, I could only get the front page of this site to [...]

Update: my WordPress blog is now hosted on VPS.net!
So the guys who run WestHost and provide me with my awesome WordPress hosting, are a sister company of the guys that run VPS.net, and they recently gave me a VPS to play around with a bit. I kinda liked how easy it was to get a [...]

So, we've finally got an official word on this, the one sentence summary by Matt reads:
PHP in WordPress themes must be GPL, artwork and CSS may be but are not required.

Ok, so that's the final truth, because the Software Freedom Law Center (who are of course absolutely NOT partial in this, even though they're called [...]

I've just agreed with my buddy Daron Babin of WebmasterRadio.FM to be the host for a weekly WordPress podcast, no names or time slots decided yet but I'm so excited about the news that I wanted to share it with you all!
All your suggestions for names, topics and guests are welcome in the comments!

Yesterday, while working on a project for Springer Uitgeverij, I was amazed to find out there is no simple RSS Shortcode plugin, that simply allows you to do this:
[rss feed="http://yoast.com/feed/" num="10" excerpt="false"/]
And then that would show the feed you'd specified. Well, now there is: the RSS Shortcode plugin. It looks like this, when functioning [...]

While I was working on a new system for my WordPress newsletter, a system that uses its own custom feed (skipping FeedBurner which caused errors last week), I had to figure out how to exclude a category from my blogs regular feed as well as my homepage and some other pages.
There's a couple of ways [...]